Latest Free Tool: ConfigMgr PXE Boot Log

ConfigMgr PXE Boot Log displays PXE boot events in an easy-to-view format and provides a history of PXE boot attempts on a distribution point during a selected time period. The tool can also display any records that exist in ConfigMgr associated with a device based on its SMBIOS GUID.

Month: August 2014

If you have access to your ConfigMgr SQL database, you can quickly get a summary for the overall compliance of software updates deployments using the following PowerShell script, which you can run on your local machine. It returns the results into the PowerShell GridView, allowing you to filter by deployment name, start time, deadline etc. […]

Today I had an interesting PXE boot problem where a computer kept aborting the PXE boot. So I checked the SMSPXE.log and found that there were no advertisements for that machine: Client boot action reply: <ClientIDReply><Identification Unknown=”0″ ItemKey=”16777684″ ServerName=””><Machine><ClientID/><NetbiosName/></Machine></Identification><PXEBootAction LastPXEAdvertisementID=”” LastPXEAdvertisementTime=”” OfferID=”” OfferIDTime=”” PkgID=”” PackageVersion=”” PackagePath=”” BootImageID=”” Mandatory=””/></ClientIDReply> F0:1F:AF:6C:05:53, 4C4C4544-0047-5310-8034-C3C04F595931: no advertisements found F0:1F:AF:6C:05:53, 4C4C4544-0047-5310-8034-C3C04F595931: […]

Recently I deployed a very simple task sequence to all our laptop computers which installs a new WiFi profile. However, on viewing the deployment reports I noticed a number of machines where the deployment was stuck in either the ‘running’ state, or ‘failed’. Although the deployment is set to ‘Re-run if failed previous attempt’ it seems […]